Two gunmakers ditch Dick’s after it hires gun control lobbyists and restricts firearms sales

Gunmakers MKS and Mossberg have stopped doing business with Dick’s Sporting Goods and its subsidiary, Field & Stream, after the company put restrictions on firearms sales and hired gun control lobbyists.

“In recent months, Dick’s Sporting Goods and its subsidiary, Field & Stream, have shown themselves, in our opinion, to be no friend of Americans’ Second Amendment,” said MKS President Charles Brown, MKS president, Guns.com recently reported. “We believe that refusing to sell long guns to adults under age 21, while many young adults in our military are not similarly restricted, is wrong. We believe that villainizing modern sporting rifles in response to pressure from uninformed, anti-gun voices is wrong. We believe that hiring lobbyists to oppose American citizens’ freedoms secured by the Second Amendment is wrong.”

Conflict arose between MKS and the sporting goods store after Dick’s employed a government affairs group to head its gun control lobbying, as well as the company’s decisions to abolish existing inventory of AR-15s and deny firearm sales to those under 21.

The move from MKS comes not long after Illinois-based Springfield Armory and the National Shooting Sports Foundation terminated relationships with Dick’s.